San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-20

Vile Will come Whlstllng INTO san AntO-
MO along the iron groves OF commerce
crying out, "Shake, old pard, shake"
THERE are two styles OF state health
officers. The Texas style and the New
| Orleans style. As the result OF this diff
ference something may drop some day.
One thing they have in common. They
are both democratic.
The Paris News wants to bar Ross
from saying anything in this prohibit
ton campaign and empty the preachers
into the barbecue bull-pens. The Paris
News has realizing sense OF the fitness
of things.
The Thackery Letters, now being
being printed in serial in Soribner's,
will appear in book form about Christ
mas. In handsome covers and finely IL
Illuminated they will make an elegant
presentation volume.
The Boerne Paper ID of the opinion
that free trade in intOxicsnts is the only
method of eflectually fighting prohibi-
ton. The Paper will find few of its
own peculiar way Of thinking.
THERE are not wanting evidences that
| a speculative epidemic is about TO break
ont in this country, particularly In the
southwest. All VINO have the symptoms
enOu Dt lhOCulhltd WIN hOlcC bChoCs
GLADsToNE's views represent the Opin-
ions of at leas ninety per cent Of the
| people of this country, and not less than
sixty per cent OF the opinions held by
the British masses. This being the case,
ultimate success is inevitable destiny.
The Goliad Guard is very guarded in
| its utterances on prohibition matters.
This campaign has developed spirit OF
hos Or
been manifested since 1865. They do not
know which end Of the thing is loaded.
MILLS is denounced for asserting in q
recent speech to the negroes, that the
Lord led them out OF slavery twenty
years ago into the liberties of American
| freedom, OF course. The average south
ern mind thinks that the Lord had less
TO do with this exodus than the devil.
The prohib journals, which pioneered
the abuse features OF this campaign,
have found such apt imitators that they
have sickened of their own medicines
and make the welkin ring with their
cries of, enough! enough. They find too
late that they have been holding the
tarred end OF the stick.
The fearful heat and consequent mop
tality at the north, particularly in the
northern cities, since this month opened
have been perfectly appalling. The end
is not yet. In Chicago with all her adj
vantages of lake breeZes 81 persons died
in hospital or on their way to it, be-
tween Saturday morning and Sunday
evening.
IT is poor city council that cannot
afford its own bOOdler nOw-a-day san
Antonio seems in fashion. Alderman
Belknap is thoroughly INDICATED for his
stunning expose, aud should the fight be
made on him for guarding the city's in
terests, as Is not improbable, he will find
that his vigilance WAS not i'll timed. San
Antonio wants no savOry municipal
"reminiscences to mingle with the OdOrs
Of her classic streams.
The Sage OF GreystOne, the late Sam
uel j. TildeD, seems to have had some
very substantial investments in English
ConsOls which add about three.Quarters
of million to the value of his estate.
Had this been left as barrel legacy to
the democracy, they would have found
the bung hole long ere this.
THAT young "heathen Chinee" who
rules the Celestial empire and as an in
come of from fifty to seventy-five mil
lions annually, will spend S5,OOO,OOO up
on his wedding festivities, but he can
lNl Ett tue iuJt W MS WIG ulINll ulH
wedding day. Cash does not count
against custom in Celestial China.
The democracy are not able to read
Sam Randall and they are afraid to
keel him in. They want to get rid of
bin, but do not know how TO spare him.
The situation is much like that Of the
man who had hold of a tigers tail and
was not sure which was safest to hang
on or TO let go.
THE prOhibitiOnists of Texas have been
sitting on those ten rotten eggs which
formed the stock in trade OF San AntO-
MO hOOdlums until they have Matched
out brand new egg-eleCtrOplate for
every prohibition journal 10 Texas. Be
tween rotten eggs and boiled wine their
menue is well supplied.
WITH the thermometer lO4 in the shade
at st. Louis, standing all day at 100 in
Louisville and Indianapolis, creeping up
to LOG at Richmond, and ReaTly the same
in the national capital, Texas TejOiCes in
her genial and invigOTating breeZes, and
wonders why people will live in such
unbearable RtmOspheres. The Texas
| tourists who went north for GOODNESS
have only been to find it where the old
| philosopher found truth-at the bottom
Of q well.
ONLY two weeks more and two days
and then there will be reaching after
the returns. The battle will be over, the
wounded In the hospital and the news
papers will be ready once more to re-
sumo their legitimate functions. Until
the lightning actually strikes there will
be grest uncertainty among the old la
dies and preachers who sit on the back
porch and shut their eyes and shudder
| Holh Ia
SINCE the Southern Mercury changed
hands and became joint stock concern,
| the fountains OF it's prOhibitionist feel
| ing have been dried up. There is no
| question that in losing the influence Of
the Mercury" the prOhibs lost the best
temperance journal published in this
state. The wisdom OF the new manage
ment saw that there was no permanenGy
in this rush for st. JOhnism, and they
have done wisely in devoting them
selves exclusively to the interests Of
their Granger patrons. That Is a cOESti-
tuency that will abide.
THE bicyclists, after a vigorous fight
for the privileges Oftbe public thorough
fares in New York state, have won the
right to the free use of the highways.
They were warned of sidewalks by the
nolicemen, were barred from park drives
nv the owners and being thrust out into
the streets, have had to fight manfully
for a place there. This fight has resulted
i'm favor of the poor mans bOrse which
needs no stable, asks no grain and is TO
his rider what the sleek and we'll
Oroomed cab or carriage horse is to the
man of wealth. One by one the roses
fall. One by one the scales also from the
ewes of the public and the rights of the
S,,or are avery wear made matter OF con-